Choice Novels Work

Required for all:

1. Character analysis -- Pick a character, pick 3 scenes (roughly from the beginning, middle, and end), and show how the character changes. Use the good old LEAF format (3 paragraphs).
   
2. Conflict/resolution analysis -- Identify a major conflict. How is it resolved? Is it appropriate for the characters/story? Is it fulfilling (for you)? Discuss (1/2 - 1 "page").
   
3. Style analysis -- describe the style of the writing. Use specific examples to support your points (at least 3 passages).

Creative Options (or not):

1. Dramatize 4-8 scenes from your book (possibly with some partners) either in person or on video.
2. Script 4-8 scenes your book -- put the story into a NEW CONTEXT.
3. Story-board 4-8 scenes from book. If you were adapting the novella to film, how would you "shoot" the scenes -- either use colonial context OR put the story in a new context.
4. Write the good old critical essay.

Don't forget your Q2 goals!

Heart of Darkness Work

Required for all readers:

1. Close-read the novella
2. Complete Moodle E/A work.
   
3. "Translate" HoD into 1-3 Haiku. This poetic form is often reduced to "3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each." While this is true, a more important aspect of haiku -- in my humble opinion -- is the volta, or "turn", or sudden and brief "illumination", which usually occurs in the second or third lines. There is a brief epiphany, in other words. Aside from the volta, a haiku is also a series of "image bursts" -- because it is to brief and terse, a good haiku suggests and points to way more than it actually "says."
4. Pick an essay from the Pitt State college syllabus here -- http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/colonial3d.html -- (The first of which is the famous critique of HoD by Chinua Achebe). Engage with one -- agree or disagree with 3-5+ points that the writer makes and say why.

Choose one (or more):

1. Dramatize 4-8 scenes from HoD (possibly with some partners) either in person or on video -- put the story into a NEW CONTEXT.
2. Script 4-8 scenes from HoD -- put the story into a NEW CONTEXT.
3. Story-board 4-8 scenes from HoD. If you were adapting the novella to film, how would you "shoot" the scenes -- either use colonial context OR put the story in a new context.
4. Write the good old critical essay.
   

Last option: Pick one of the four above and do the critical essay.

Don't forget your Q2 goals!